The French and Ukrainian presidents will attend the signing ceremony of two agreements on Friday with 650 million euros in loans and donations to Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron will meet late in the afternoon at the Élysée with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and will hold a press conference.
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The French and Ukrainian presidents will attend the signing ceremony on Friday of two agreements with 650 million euros in loans and donations to Ukraine to support in particular the critical energy infrastructures targeted by Russia. Emmanuel Macron will meet late Friday afternoon at the Élysée with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and will hold a press conference.
The first agreement should make it possible to provide the French Development Agency (AFD) with “projected funds of 400 million euros in loans and 50 million in donations until 2027” in order to “to expand its activities in Ukraine”. This will allow AFD to “deploy its entire range of instruments (…) to intervene in support of Ukrainian local authorities, in coordination and complementarity with donors already present in Ukraine”, according to the Élysée. The priority areas of intervention will be the energy and transport sectors with support for “the development of administrative capacities”.
The second agreement will concern the establishment of a “support fund” for critical infrastructures, endowed with 200 million euros “to support French companies in future calls for tenders (…) in the fields of energy, transport, water and sanitation, health and agriculture”. Before the bilateral with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée, President Zelensky will deliver a speech to French deputies in the National Assembly and is expected to meet French industrialists.
